Frederick Shaw

Frederick Shaw (31 July 1861-6 January 1942) was a Lieutenant-General of the British Army who commanded all British forces in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.

Biography
Frederick Shaw was born in Normanton, Derbyshire, England on 31 July 1861, and he served in Egypt in 1882 and in South Africa during the Second Boer War of 1899-1902. During World War I, he commanded an infantry brigade of the British Army, and he became a divisional commander in 1915 and later Chief of the General Staff for Home Forces. In 1919, he oversaw the creation of the Blacks and Tans, a force of volunteer British ex-servicemen that would assist the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence. Nevil Macready replaced Shaw as commander of British troops in Ireland in 1920, and he died in 1942 at the age of 80.